[lbo-talk] Signs of the times

[Miles Jackson]

James Heartfield wrote:
> Andy274 "I went through Union Station early yesterday evening and the first thing that struck about the crowd there was how the population of morbidly obese in DC had suddenly shot up"
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> Miles thought that opposition to health care was 'an economic version of Stockholm Syndrome'
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> Elsewhere I read a columnist refer to the opponents of healthcare reform as 'mouthbreathers'.
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> I can't help but thinking that one reason that the U.S. left has not made many inroads in the masses is that it cannot hold its deepseated contempt for working class people in check.
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I don't follow your argument.  Teabaggers are a small minority of the 
working class people in the U. S.   How is ridicule of that right-wing, 
extremist minority group "deepseated contempt for working class people"?

Miles